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@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ designed. The ioctl() API is in ncr.h and the userspace in ncrypto.h.
For the new API to fully operate, root must load a system key (constant
per system) using the setkey program. After this stage the new API should
-be fully operational.
+be fully operational. Example:
+$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/boot/key count=1 bs=16
+$ chmod 600 /boot/key
+$ userspace/ncr-setkey /boot/key
The main concept of the new API is disallow userspace applications
access to cryptographic keys. Operations should be possible (such